Letter: Our punishments are too lenient

I am hearing two major extreme sides out there on the gun issue. The extremes vary from removing all guns from the public, like they have removed cocaine, or arm everybody that's a good citizen, even though many people would not want to be armed. I'd like to comment on something in between: Making the punishment fit the crime.

A person who kills someone other than in self-defense should be put away for life or given a lethal injection if guilty. Our punishments are too lenient. If we can't change our laws to put someone away for life or give them a lethal injection for beating their grandmother to death with a hammer, we don't have the backbone to make this murder problem go away.

There's a lot of things people should be given a second chance at, but not murder.